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...There's also the psychological impact of living under constant stress, worrying about whether family members will be stopped by security forces. For a visitor to Kashmir, the number of checkpoints and bunkers, all manned by soldiers carrying AK-47s and sometimes just feet apart, is hard to ignore. But more unsettling are the curfews, called during major protests, elections or any time authorities see fit. They are unpredictable, and breaking curfew can mean arrest. So Srinagar tends to empty out after dark; some shopkeepers who used to keep late hours have simply given up, pulling down shutters before...
...While there has been no large-scale attack in Indian Kashmir since last November, Indian authorities say that the number of suspected militants trying to cross over from Pakistan has increased noticeably since last year. In late March, Indian troops fought a five-day gun battle in the border district of Kupwara. Eight Indian commandos were killed, as well as 25 suspected LeT militants, but others are assumed to have entered successfully. By late summer, violent attacks returned to the heart of Srinagar after a respite of nearly three years. On Aug. 1, two men from the Central Reserve Police...
...primary poverty-fighting method favored by many policymakers was to get farmers off their farms and into modern jobs in factories and urban centers. But that strategy has proven insufficient. Income levels in the countryside badly trail those in cities in many countries, while the FAO estimates that the number of poor going hungry in 2009 reached an all-time high at more than 1 billion. "The bottom of the pyramid really depends on agriculture," says Suresh Babu, senior fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) in Washington. "There is no other way to bring them...
...cataract surgeries and another for patients taking lifesaving kidney drugs. The kidney results have been especially striking: by better determining the proper dosage for individual patients and training them to self-administer their meds, the hospital has saved $3,800 per patient per year while more than doubling the number who score within the parameters of good kidney health...
Increased contraceptive use fueled a decline in the number of abortions performed worldwide from 1995 to 2003, according to a new report from the Guttmacher Institute, which supports abortion rights. The survey also found that abortion occurs about as often in countries where it is legal as in those that limit it. Since 1997, only three countries have tightened abortion restrictions, while 19 countries or regions have loosened them...